KETAMINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY IN CALIFORNIA & COLORADO
Access a Deeper Level of Healing
Some patterns sit deeper than words can reach on their own. Ketamine assisted psychotherapy opens a window for new perspective, insight, and change.
What This Approach Makes Possible
Some emotional patterns get set early and become ingrained, even after years of working on them. Talk therapy can help you understand those patterns clearly and still leave you living inside them. That's not a flaw in the process — some patterns are held where words and insight can't fully reach.
Ketamine works differently. It supports greater neuroplasticity, making the brain more open to new connections — opening a window to gaining perspective, accessing feelings that have been hard to reach, and shifting patterns that have felt stuck for a long time.
Used alongside therapy, that window becomes a place to process, clarify, and make meaning of what surfaces. The ketamine experience creates the opening; therapy is what helps you integrate that experience and translate it into lasting change.
The Arc of recovery, ketamine
Each phase builds on the last, so the process can adjust as your understanding, comfort, and needs change along the way.
Initial Consultation
Our first conversation is a chance to talk through what's bringing you to this work, ask any questions you have, and figure out together whether this feels like the right fit. From there, you'll also meet with a medical provider, who determines medical eligibility and writes the prescription.
Discuss your current concerns and goals
Ask questions about ketamine and how the process works
Determine whether this feels like the right fit
Prepare for the Experience
Before any dosing session, we spend time building the groundwork through our preparation sessions. The goal is to explore expectations, set intentions, and establish the kind of trust that makes the experience feel supported rather than uncertain.
Learn what to expect from a dosing session
Set intentions for the work ahead
Build the therapeutic relationship this work relies on
Move Through the Session
During dosing sessions, you're supported the entire time, with space to let new perspectives, insights, and emotions come forward, without needing to force or direct the experience. You will self-administer the ketamine lozenge prescribed by the medical provider. Dosing sessions are typically 90 minutes to allow for the experience and any processing immediately after.
Engage in a supported dosing session
Access new perspective and insight
Process what comes up as it happens
Make Meaning of What Surfaced
Integration sessions are where we process any emotions, memories, and insights that came up during the experience. During this phase we explore how these new insights can be applied to create change. Meaning deepens as the mind continues to reorganize itself.
Talk through what surfaced during the session
Connect new insight to daily patterns
Turn insight into something that actually changes how you live
Move Forward with Greater Relief
Many clients feel meaningful relief from symptoms after a course of ketamine treatment. Integration continues to support you, helping you meet new challenges differently and with a clearer sense of self.
Continue strengthening what you've built
Address new challenges as they come up
Build a foundation for lasting wellbeing
How Ketamine Works in the Brain
How Ketamine Works in the Brain
Ketamine works through a glutamate-driven cascade in the brain, leading to elevated BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor), which leads to synaptogenesis — new synaptic connections forming, primarily in the prefrontal cortex.
Who This Treatment is For
Who This Treatment is For
Research has shown Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy to be beneficial for depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, chronic pain, and end of life distress. It also supports those seeking self-exploration and a deeper understanding of self.
Who Is Not a Good Fit for This Treatment
Who Is Not a Good Fit for This Treatment
This work is not appropriate for individuals with active or past psychotic disorders, mania, certain medical conditions, or an active ketamine addiction. We'll talk through your history together to make sure this is a safe and appropriate path for you.
